The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-13

; how much improvement in pric
Q there has been in tho great bulk {
, his productions. l need not te
him, he never saw worse times I'm
E der a revenue tariff than he has ex
, perlenced under the highest protec
, ton tariff. But it has occurred 10
constituent of NINE 10 call nttentio
: to the fact, that if the first PROPOSE
ton were true, that protective tar
; iff had increased the price of all tha
farmer sells from so 10 200 per cent
How does it benefit the wage earn
er to make him pay from one bal
to two times Us much more for his
eggs. his chickens, his mutton, hi
beef, his fruit, his mush and milk
and his bread and butter. We Dem
ocrats sometimes complain of pro-
lection because 1t increases in many
instances unnecessarily the price ol
such nItic'eS as come from abroad.
But here Republican leader. boast
ing that il increases the price of ev-
cry article that our own farmers
raise for us. Let him get out OF that
dilemma. Now for the other pro-
p Ton. Every domestic article
he buy is from so to 200 per cent
cheaper Cheapness is what high
oiectlve tariff men have been
| fighting. But dirt cheap IS dear to
this cheapness My sar'tha.e ic
taught me that one hund' ed per
of any number was equal to that
number. or the whole of it. That if
You sold anything for one hundred
per cent less than it cost you got
nothing for it. That was in the
days before protection had increas-
ed intelligence 10 such an extent
that you could take 200 per cent
away from the price of an article
and have enough left to protect the
labor engaged in the manufacture OF
that article from the pauper Labor OF
Europe. But the farmer is not tho
only one of our fellow citizens ac
co,ding 10 this Republican states
man whom a protective tariff has
given two bundled per cent going |
to market, and two hundred per !
cent. coming from market and five
hundred per cent while there. Let
US quote him again: Facts of: /:
EQUAL potency can be cited with I
out LIMIT IN favor of the policy of
protection in its effects upon all the
other industries of the country"
Grand. glorious, sublime protec
lion! Making every thing from so
10 200 per cent dearer-and every
hing from so to 200 per cent cheap
from 90 to 500 per cent
better! How can II be? But the
of 1880 does not show such
prosperity in our Agri
.ulturc in Ohio. We had that
car 247, ,1S9 farms of an average
f 90 acres each, and of the total
'alue Of 1 JET. .497, 1858, having i'm.
dement's and machinery worth $50. 1
y. .iS0 making a capital of 81, ,l5S,
1883 not including live stock I
,hich amounted to Sl03, 7O7, ,73G a
otal capital of l, POI, 726,263. The ,
stimated value of all farm produc- ]
ions sold, consumed, or on hand for {
S79, amounted to $156, III, ,l53, 7
'hich did not exceed l2s per cent G
I the total capital invested, with I
Mt ded uciing anything for labur, Q
!xes, interest, insurance or repairs. y
here were engaged in the occupa- o
ons of agriculture in the whole !
late at that time 397 ,495 persons q
all ages, from 10 years upward. c
VIC allow for one man and half Il
! an average to each farm il would y
quire 364 7S3 men. Tho average e
inuul income from each average p
rm would have been not to exceed o.
;I5. That is to say the farmer CO
allied on an average from Il farm iC
SO acres the sum OF s6I5 out of fe
lich to pay his labor, his repairs, OF
: taxes, his interest, If he we'd IN
ything on his farm or stock, his b
'urance and then supper; his fam a
+. Think of that and then com- Y;
re his lot with that OF some of the ID
piiallsts in protected monopolIes. tn
,h us the plate glass monopoly "
riIaps that would be too signifi- We
1t. Then compare it with the wi
ults in the mechanical and man ge
cluring industries IN some OF the ac
stern States, wherein the CAPT he
sts have from 30 10 80 to divide TO
org themselves after paying for fro
labor and material. In Maine la,
vas in 1880, 500, Connecticut no
q and Massachusetts 3S25 upon ad
capital invested. These States TO
,e been the homes of protection. ha
re in Ohio the farmers return La
n $1,000 worth OF his capital be. of
!, paying his labor was only $l25 pa
the year. In massachusetts the gre
lulactures' return for the year owe
q 900 OF his capital was $3.50 af til
paying his labor. have no Oh
BIT whatever that The Governor Silt
eyed The statement he made of the
prosperity Of the far ~
as the result of the protective per
EN- He must have been thor sue
MY satisfied ofit. This may nc ial
1t for his earnestness and vigor cas-
is specIal message TO General and
.mb!y, April 9th, 1856 urging 10 Il
t the valuation of real estate acr,
" exceeds IS per cent and rang nio'
'wnward from that poirt as low caSs
per cent Of lis true value" aild